Cumulative Overrated/Underrated Teams

This is a table of teams' under-/over-ratedness over the span 1989 to
present. Teams are sorted by total rating, with the most underrated teams at
the top. All teams rated in the preseason or final ratings in any year in the
span are given. Additional notes on the table's contents follow the
table.

The teams at the top of the table were the most underrated (final poll
standing furthest above preseason poll standing) over the span 1989-present.
The teams at the bottom of the list were the most overrated (final poll
standing furthest below preseason poll standing) over the span
1989-present.

A "dash" in the table indicates that the team in question was unranked in
both preseason and final polls that year; a "zero" indicates that the team's
preseason and final rankings were the same that year. Any other number
indicates that the team was ranked in at least one of the preseason or final
polls, and the number is the difference between the two (with "unranked"
counted as 26th).

For data on only frequently rated teams (eliminating those that only have
a few years' data), see the Teams file.

Note: These numbers do not really reflect how good the teams
are; they instead reflect how well they lived up to preseason expectations.
Any Sun Belt member would have a score of zero (since they never had a team
ranked in preseason or final polls during this span) but that would not mean
each of those teams are stronger than the ones (such as Southern Cal)
which ended up with negative numbers in this list.